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Time Management and Meetings

  • Data Driven Time Management: By Noah Kagan at Sumo. Takeaway: Measure your time and then use that data to decide how you really want to be spending your time. This does not just mean office time!

  • Focus – keynote at AgileByExample, Warsaw: By Henrik Kniberg. Takeaway: Focus on extracting more value from your available time. “Busy-ness” is an artificial concept. Build in slack to your schedule to achive better focus.

  • Gossip, Rumors, and Lies: By Michael Lopp. Takeaways: What are the right reasons to have meetings, how to provide important structure, and the importance of settings an agenda.

  • The Habit of No: By Ethan Austin. The habit of saying no is important for teamwork and keeping a startup focused on the common goal.

  • How I Share Information with My Team: By Mike McGarr. Takeaways: Team meetings aren't the only way to spread information to the group.

  • Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule: by Y Combinator's Paul Graham. Takeaway: The manager's schedule is typically in one-hour blocks, while the maker's schedule requires longer stretches of uninterrupted time. "Each type of schedule works fine by itself. Problems arise when they meet. Since most powerful people operate on the manager's schedule, they're in a position to make everyone resonate at their frequency if they want to. But the smarter ones restrain themselves, if they know that some of the people working for them need long chunks of time to work in."

  • Manage Your Day-to-Day: by Seth Godin, Dan Ariely, Gretchen Rubin, Erin Rooney Doland, and other contributors. The book shows you how to stop letting other people run your schedule; find the right recharge/productivity balance; optimize digital communications/social media use, and more.

  • No "Yes." Either "HELL YEAH!" or "No": By Derek Sivers. Takeaways: If you are overcommitted, recalibrate when you say yes. Saying "no" more gives you more time to say "HELL YEAH!" for things that are really important to you.

  • On Better Meetings: By Lara Hogan. Takeaways: Productive meetings come from doing the right amount of work before, during, and after a meeting.

  • Product Strategy Means Saying No. Takeaways: Review common reasons for making product decisions and ask whether they are actually good for the product.

  • Run Your Meetings Like a Boss: By David Fallarme. Takeaways: Make decisions using data, keep meetings to the necessary size, and be prepared with questions and answers to ensure a meeting is productive.

  • The Management Technique Essential to Google’s Growth: By Blake Thorne. Takeaways: On the potential benefits of open office hours and how to make them work.

  • 3 P’s of Prioritizing: By the John Maxwell Company. Takeaway: If you are feeling crunched for time, reevaluate your priorites. The three Ps are Private Time, Production Time, and People Time.

  • The Top 5 Productivity Mistakes: By Ramit Sethi. Takeaways: Talks about the psychology of being unproductive, and how changing the narrative can achive big breakthroughs.

  • What You Don't Know About Management - How to Take Back Your Workday: By Janet Choi and Walter Chen at iDoneThis. A longer read that starts with self-managing your own success and covers how to manage people more effectively, as well as effective meeting tips.

  • Why Work Doesn't Happen At Work: By Jason Fried @ TedXMidwest. Takeaways: Interruptions are toxic, and make workers have to restart. Work to reduce syncronous communication in order to free up employees to have more uninterrupted productive time.